John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace
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John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace (1641 – 27 September 1693) was an English peer and MP.
He was born at Hurley, Buckinghanshire, the son of John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace
and Lady Anne, 7th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Le Despenser. He entered Wadham College, Oxford
, matriculating in 1655 and gaining an MA in 1661.
He was elected MP for Berkshire
in 1661 and served until he was ennobled in 1670 on the death of his father. He developed a reputation as an ardent Whig and a sportsman and gambler.
He was also anti-Catholic and admitted into the confidence of those organising the Glorious Revolution
to replace the Catholic James II
with the Protestant William of Orange
. He arranged secret meetings in a cellar at his Ladye Place home in Hurley. Once he heard that William had landed in England he set out with 70 men to join him but was captured and imprisoned in Gloucester Castle. After his release he entered Oxford with a force of 300 cavalry to occupy the city for William.
In 1692, suffering from a life of alcoholic excess, he fell down a flight of stairs and never recovered and died the following year in Lincolns Inn Fields, London. He had married in 1662 Martha, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Edmond Pye of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire; they had one son, John, who died in infancy, and three daughters. The peerage passed to his cousin William’s son, John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace, who became a Governor of the New York colony. Their daughter Martha succeeded her grandmother as the 8th Baroness Wentworth.
He was born at Hurley, Buckinghanshire, the son of John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace
John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace
John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace was a British peer and Royal servant.John was born in Hurley, Berkshire the son of Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace and his wife, Margaret, the daughter of London merchant William Dodworth, and educated at Christchurch College, Oxford...
and Lady Anne, 7th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Le Despenser. He entered Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road in central Oxford. It was founded by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, wealthy Somerset landowners, during the reign of King James I...
, matriculating in 1655 and gaining an MA in 1661.
He was elected MP for Berkshire
Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Berkshire was a parliamentary constituency in England, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885...
in 1661 and served until he was ennobled in 1670 on the death of his father. He developed a reputation as an ardent Whig and a sportsman and gambler.
He was also anti-Catholic and admitted into the confidence of those organising the Glorious Revolution
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, is the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau...
to replace the Catholic James II
James II
James II may refer to:* James II, Count of La Marche , King Consort of Naples* James II , the second EP by Mancunian band James* James II of Aragon , King of Sicily...
with the Protestant William of Orange
William of Orange
William of Orange usually refers to either:*William the Silent, William I, , Prince of Orange, founder of the House Orange-Nassau and the Netherlands as a state...
. He arranged secret meetings in a cellar at his Ladye Place home in Hurley. Once he heard that William had landed in England he set out with 70 men to join him but was captured and imprisoned in Gloucester Castle. After his release he entered Oxford with a force of 300 cavalry to occupy the city for William.
In 1692, suffering from a life of alcoholic excess, he fell down a flight of stairs and never recovered and died the following year in Lincolns Inn Fields, London. He had married in 1662 Martha, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Edmond Pye of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire; they had one son, John, who died in infancy, and three daughters. The peerage passed to his cousin William’s son, John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace, who became a Governor of the New York colony. Their daughter Martha succeeded her grandmother as the 8th Baroness Wentworth.